Bistable and oscillatory dynamics in regulatory networks are essential for patterning, cell proliferation, and cell differentiation in biological systems. My lab takes an interdisciplinary approach (theory and experiment; physics and biology; synthetic and systems biology) to understand the diverse molecular and evolutionary mechanisms by which thresholds, combinatorial control, bistability, and oscillation have evolved in biological systems.

Education:

PhD - University of MichiganBS - University of California, San Diego

2011 NIH Director's New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health

2006 Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Burroughs Wellcome Funds